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Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?
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cga2000 |
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Re: screen-256color terminfo entry? |
Date: |
Sat, 13 May 2006 20:19:19 -0400 |
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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:37:00PM EDT, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
[..]
> > Have you experienced anything like this?
> [...]
>
> No.
>
> What is your pager?
>
less
[..]
Sorry, but I am totally ignorant of both man, groff, etc. and terminfo.
>
> So, it may be your pager that behaves differently in one case
> and the other, but I can't think why. I can see no problem with
> either of more, less, most, pg or w3m here.
Yes, it's definitely "less" that's having problems formatting the man
output. I tried with w3m and most of the formatting problems went away.
I also tried with most and the problem was different: control characters
were displayed "asis" rather than being interpreted.
Now one thing that I had not mentioned earlier is that apart from the
256-color business, I had also enabled UTF-8 by doing two things:
1. changing my locale to en_US.UTF-8
2. running "xterm -u8"
I was not sure whether this might have had any undesirable effects where
"less" is concerned but since I was having problems with applications
that do not support UTF-8 such as elinks and slrn, I have now switched
my locale back to en_US and I am back to running a non-UTF-8 xterm.
As far as the "less" pager is concerned this does not seem to make any
difference. On the other hand man pages are now correctly formated by
"most". And I get some nice color highlighting as a bonus.
So my options would appear to be:
1. Stick with your terminfo entry and switch my man pager to "most"
2. Use "less" & switch to xterm256-color when I run the man command
> Also what is the value of $TERM before you start screen? It is
> important that it is xterm-256color so that screen knows the terminal
> capabilities.
It's definitely TERM=xterm-256color.
Thanks,
cga
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, (continued)
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Stephane Chazelas, 2006/05/09
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/10
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Stephane Chazelas, 2006/05/10
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/10
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/11
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Nikolai Weibull, 2006/05/12
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/13
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Stephane Chazelas, 2006/05/14
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Stephane Chazelas, 2006/05/12
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?,
cga2000 <=
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Stephane Chazelas, 2006/05/14
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/15
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Stephane Chazelas, 2006/05/16
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/16
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Nikolai Weibull, 2006/05/17
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/17
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Nikolai Weibull, 2006/05/18
- Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, cga2000, 2006/05/18
Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?, Alain Bench, 2006/05/19